Klarinet Archive - Posting 000577.txt from 2004/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Meaning of undercut tone holes?
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:33:24 -0500

At 10:25 AM 11/19/2004 -0500, Vann Joe Turner wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Can somebody explain a term for me. I've heard it for years, but have no
>mental picture of what it means.
>
>What is meant by undercut tone holes?

If you have ever seen a countersunk hole for a screw, that is pretty much
what they do inside the bore with the tone holes. They cut an
outward-tapered entry into the bore from the straight-walled tone
hole. Undercutting is not required on older-design, straight, large-bore
clarinets, but must be done on the smaller-bore, polycylindrical instruments.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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